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Comment by Anna Coote

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Principal Fellow at the New Economics Foundation
There are fairer ways to spread prosperity than universal basic income. Better alternatives include universal public services and a minimum income guarantee.
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Implement a universal basic income
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Disputed The New Economics Foundation page dated 08 February 2018 and attributed to Anna Coote shows the words split between the article headline, “There are fairer ways to spread prosperity than universal basic income,” and the standfirst, “Better alternatives include universal public services and a minimum income guarantee,” under her byline. ([neweconomics.org](https://neweconomics.org/2018/02/better-fairer-ways-spreading-prosperity-ubi?body=%3A+&subject=)) I did not find the exact continuous sentence with the inserted period as quoted, so this appears to be a stitched-together rendering of the title and subtitle rather than a verbatim quote. ([neweconomics.org](https://neweconomics.org/2018/02/better-fairer-ways-spreading-prosperity-ubi?body=%3A+&subject=)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17h ago
AI Unverifiable Could not directly verify the quote because the source URL (https://neweconomics.org/2018/02/better-fairer-ways-spreading-prosperity-ubi) returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch on both http and https. Strong corroborating evidence exists, however: (1) Google indexes the URL with the page title "There are fairer ways to spread prosperity than universal basic income | New Economics Foundation" — the first sentence of the quote is verbatim the article title; (2) Anna Coote is confirmed as Principal Fellow at NEF and is well-documented as a leading critic of UBI who advocates Universal Basic Services and a minimum income guarantee as alternatives (consistent with the quote's second sentence); (3) the vote alignment is correct — Anna Coote is "against" the statement "Implement a universal basic income," matching the quote's anti-UBI stance. Year (2018) is older than 2025/2026, but I could not locate a recent (2025/2026) direct, attributable quote from Coote stating the same view to substitute. Marking ai_unverifiable per instructions due to the source URL being blocked, but the quote is very likely accurate. Verified by claude-opus-4-7. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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